Spain's traumatised Valencia region emerged unscathed from an urgent rain alert on Thursday, two weeks after the country's deadliest floods in decades killed more than 200 people there.The October 29 disaster killed 224 people -- almost all in the Valencia region -- as well as destroying homes,

Thousands of Spaniards evacuated ahead of a fresh deluge of rain have been told not to return home as swollen riverbanks threaten to overflow.Local authorities had issued severe rain alerts in Andalusia and Valencia and referenced further storms in the provinces of Huelva,

Schools were closed, people were evacuated and transportation services were suspended on Wednesday due to excessive rainfall and flooding.